stop doing phrenology with the computer!!

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

A lovely example of the interplay of morphogen dynamics, tissue mechanics, cell mechanics and signal transduction at the most crucial stage of embryogenesis. And a good example of why talk of development being "programmed" into the genome is simply the wrong language. www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Today, like all days, is a great day to impeach RFK jr. #ScienceSky

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

Gee, thanks for this "clarifying" diagram~

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

bro are you fucking kidding me

he's evil but the photos he's given us have been so fucking funny

Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to US President Donald Trump, told leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany — classified as an extremist party by German authorities — that he sees them as “bold visionaries” shaping the country’s future.

Both the sling-jaw wrasse and this video of it are all I hoped for and more. Wait for it... And... Perfection. 🧪 🐟 💋

This is my son’s soccer teammate. This is heartbreaking to watch, no kid should go through this. I know his parents, they are good people. No family should endure this. The cruelty and evil actions of the trump administration and ICE are tearing families and communities apart.

Congrats to @trinityneuro.bsky.social Professor Shane O'Mara and colleagues, on securing 10 million euro ERC Synergy Grant.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Ouch

Lineage-resolved atlas of the developing human cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New in @nature.com, @labnowakowski.bsky.social uses barcoded lineage tracing to reveal how different cell types in the human brain form, identifying a transition during development when some progenitors shift from making excitatory to inhibitory neurons. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #studyBRAIN 🧠🟦

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

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And bear in mind this is what the Israelis _want_ the BBC to show:

"By understanding when and where critical genes are turned on during development, we can begin to uncover how disruptions in that process may lead to disorders like autism or schizophrenia." #NeuroSky #PsychSky medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...

Ahahaha. How do satirists stay employed

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

Every time one anti-vaxxer is quoted in the media, one million scientists and healthcare workers should also be quoted in support of vaccines. False equivalence in the media is killing us.

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

lol

Would be ideal for storing all that DNA sequence data we are collecting!

In the long-running Nativism-Empiricism debate, have the impressive successes of AI based on blank slate-ish connectionist architectures dealt a knock-out blow for Empiricism? Is it game over for Nativism? @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social gently pushes back 🧪 philpapers.org/archive/KARA...

what exactly is "winning the AI race? environmental destruction, labor extraction, ever more intrusive surveillance, mass manipulation, and unprecedented power for the handful???

When brain talks back to the eye "The state of our brain shapes what we see, but how early in the visual system does this start? A new study in PLOS Biology shows that brain state-dependent release of histamine modulates the very first stage of vision in the retina" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

In Bari Weiss's world, Jewish people can only be truly safe in a USA run by [checks notes] literal Goebbels fanboy Stephen Miller.

"The Riddle of Organismal Agency" is now available as a paperback version! Edited by @alejandrofabregastejeda.com, Jan Baedke, Guido Prieto and Gregory Radick, the volume puts together reflections from #HistSci and #PhilSci on the topic of organismal agency. #HPBio www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o...

The US whooping cough outbreak continues to snowball in Texas, with cases 4x higher than last year. Texas was also the location where the U.S. measles outbreak took hold, and like many states is seeing a rise in vaccine exemptions. But Texans for Vaccine Choice say “fears are overblown”.

New podcast. I chat with a paleobotanist about the evolution of plants and how they shaped life on earth. open.spotify.com/episode/4BCU...

Development that lasts a life time. Check out the 2025 special issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social on Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/15...

Come to Ireland! Do important work with the badass Dr. Birhane! #MLethics #machinelearning #PostdocJobs 🧪

Another recommended read from Andrew Winston: “I show how post-WWII neoliberals and libertarians could employ ideas of “innate intelligence” to promote the reduction of government funding of social programs….IQ data could also be employed in the fight against “egalitarianism.”

Also while doing a deep dive into the world of influencer podcasters I’m shocked at how very far right wing so many bros are … what’s with that?

Interesting story in this preprint. A male infant was diagnosed with Fanconi anemia due to an X-linked frameshift mutation. Three years later, his hematopoiesis became normal (without intervention). How? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Man, I'd forgotten what it feels like to wake up to good news... 😀

It’s a good night for it.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them